i dont know of any existing programs but i tried making one like this myself of super mario kart using image recognition. the problem is the font of the timer is too confusing for the image recognition library. you could train it with the new font but that requires linux and i didnt bother
some games allow flash carts some dont. if you are a mod it might be a good idea to look into how accurate the carts are and youll have to be mindful of the fact that despite being on a real console, a flash cart would allow a runner to use a modified rom.
is it considered real hardware? well its not emulation at least.
people edit their run video to add an intro? really?
if a submission video has many minutes of nothing related to the run being submitted at the start i verify it like normal but will DM the runner to tell them to not do it in the future because its annoying and slows down verification progress. mentioning that "run starts at x:xx" in the run description is fine too.
videos up on a file sharing website i havent seen but i would probably reject it unless they can give me a proper reason for doing so. specifically if they uploaded it on google drive i must question why not just upload it to youtube? you use the same account for both.
im not exactly sure what you are asking and you should really ask in the re7 discord but assuming you are using an autosplitter. they arent made to split at certain splits. an auto splitter splits whenever a certain event happens no matter which split you are on.
lets say your splits are currently on level 4 and you beat level 7 the autosplitter was made to split for completing level 7 so it splits even though you are on the split for level 4.
make sure to launch livesplit as administrator. if that wont help ask in the cry of fear discord for help
ask in the smw discord. i can only assume you are not using the right emulator or rom or something
dont remember the name but there are at least two visual autosplitters. you give them pictures of frames where you want too split and then it looks at your game feed and sends the split key to livesplit if it recognisez the image of a frame you gave it
livesplit allows you to manually input in game times. or make a google sheets sheet that will add your times together